2007-10-30 23:45:32 · 17 answers · asked by juan diego 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it has more than a billion follower (the largest of any religion), has its own country, the pope, mother teresa, jfk, jrr tolkien, alfred hitchcock, the list is endless.... the most sensible of all religion, the best there is and will always be, a true religion!
2007-10-31 17:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by arnold janssen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is, nor do I think that "cool" is necessarily a good thing for any religion to be anyway.
However, the one thing that the Catholic religion has over all the other Christian religions is an historical claim to being the modern result of the "religion" established by the apostles. Even if the teachings have changed since then, history can't be denied. It is a fact. No other Christian religion can trace their origin to the first century through the bishops/deacons/elders (not popes) all the way back to the apostles.
I guess that might be considered pretty "cool".
2007-10-31 13:18:54 · answer #2 · answered by browneyedgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Based on the new testament. I don't think it's the coolest, but it's a step up from fundamentalism, and is prepared to be introspective, though this does not often lead to any changes. The coolest would be those whirling dervishes types, or black american gospel types.
2007-10-31 06:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by =42 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Must be because of the Real Presence of Jesus, all the Sacraments and the Communion of Saints.
2007-10-31 11:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by sparki777 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It seems to have it all I mean,the first Bible,countless treasures of grace and a direct lineage right back to the Apostles.
2007-10-31 07:08:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately 30 A.D. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the Church that Jesus Christ died for, the Church that was established and built by the Apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus, or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship / adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in Heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. So, the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as recorded in the New Testament.
Is that cool enough for you?
2007-10-31 07:28:48 · answer #6 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Umm, because the Pope wears Prada?
2007-10-31 06:52:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not though is it?
Some Hind(ude)s get to drink real blood from skulls.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/36/Aghori1.jpg
Grape juice??..phtooey!!..
Also, some Muslims get to rip themselves bloody and cut their children's heads with knives.
Stigmata? Phtoooeeey! What about full on bloodbath?:
(Caution, graphic images of bloodletting and child abuse)
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/1635/screenhunter3015hq.jpg
http://www.middle-east-info.org/league/lebanon/ashuralebanon.jpg
2007-10-31 07:09:44 · answer #8 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your question is a statement.
If you think it's way, way cooler....great.
2007-10-31 06:54:36 · answer #9 · answered by Richard F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it is the most popular. However, it also seems unnecessarily complicated, and I see the whole Church thing as a barrier between the individual and God.
2007-10-31 06:52:57 · answer #10 · answered by rath 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋